Giveaway:UPDATE - CONTEST HAS ENDED

UPDATE: Ok, due to the gigantic amount of entries, I will set the deadline for Sunday night, 11:59 EST. Will announce winner at noon EST on Monday. Good luck everyone.

Hey guys - I thought I would throw up a contest for the weekend. Up for grabs is a 1941 Heritage Press edition of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass," complete in one volume. Contains the Tenniel illustrations and comes in a nifty slipcase. Just leave a comment below to let me know you're interested in entering. I'll announce the winner on Monday around noon.

most interested. it is a favorite text. I'm trying to get my daughter interested in a cheapo dover edition and I have a falling-apart-from-repeated-use Dial edition from 1931 that really needs to be retired or repaired or both.

aside from the ruthless self-interest, I am really enjoying your posts. I haven't found any great bookmarks of late and I'm living vicariously through you.

Please count me in. I'm a member of a community on Livejournal that is all about literary tattoo's and so many people there get "We're all mad here" and i'm curious about it as i've never read the book before. I've watched the Disney movie edition but I hear the book is so very different and supposedly even better.

This is my all time favourite book, as you can see from my email... My current copy is from the early 40s and falling apart so much that I'm afraid to read it. You would make ma very very happy person if you considered my comment for your copy.

Kinda an odd story, but I'd like to enter the contest with the hope that this will be an amazing gift for a dear friend and mentor.

Jump back about a year. I went to college at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), where last year we did a production of Alice and Wonderland with a truly amazing director, Jim Orr. He worked with 60+ deaf students to build a world of Alice in Wonderland that was new and inviting, creative and funny. Yes, it was Lewis Carroll, but it had an air of freshness and playful spirit that I never saw in any other spoken or signed (ASL) production. I mean how do you take the genius of Carroll, translate it into another language (sign language), and then put it on stage and keep the youthful emotions and adventures of the original text on a page?

Jim is such a supportive, nurturing, and creative person that he touched me in a way I wasn't expecting. I've been hunting for a gift for him for a long time (nearly a year) that would be worthy, and this is the first thing I found that's right.

It's hard to find a single gift to thank one of your favorite mentors.

That said, if you chose to give me the book, you'll have made my year. Hopefully, his too.

(So you know this story is legit: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52844722205 )

Uh, hell yes! I love Alice in wonderland. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" are two of my favorite books of all time. I first read them in around 5th grade. I found the book (very old and beat up, not this edition but very similar, both books were combined in one volume, like this) in my elementary school library. I used to read a lot more back then, but I was very young. I read it again more recently, and it was better than the first time. But I've never actually owned a copy (:

What a beautiful edition - that spine, oh! - and the colours, the illustrations... I keep telling myself I'm going to make a feast of this story one day because I've never read it, seen it, or had it told to me, and I know there are lessons and laughs aplenty to be had. If I won this stunner, I'd be over the moon. But if I didn't, I'll seek it out eventually. This competition might just be the impetus I needed. I was saying just last week that I want to read it soon. Btw, you're very generous to give this up! I've only just found your blog and I've only read this post so far, but so far, so brilliant. :D

I don't think they play at all fairly, and they all quarrel so dreadfully one ca'n't hear oneself speak–and they don't seem to have any rules in particular: at least, if there are nobody attends to them–and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive: for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground–and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!

I have dreams of opening up my own library (thousands of volumes), but, only to those whom treat books well. Having worked in 3 libraries and at a bookstore, I have seen the love of books and the abuse. This would make a wonderful addition! A boxed edition... (sigh and swoon)kimberly.s.dunham@gmail.com

I have 300 plus editions of the Alice books. You should definitely give this one to someone else. But it's a nice prize. It is, as you may have guessed, my favourite book in the English language. If I were you, I'd give it to someone who has never read it.

Several years ago I found a note from Wallace Nutting in an old book. The note included a block print that Nutting used as his letterhead and a handwritten note about an upcoming Quaker meeting that he was to attend.Being a shameless capitalist I sold it on E-bay to someone who could enjoy it more than I...and forgot where in the book it had been placed as a page marker.

I once found, in the library stacks of a religious college, a set of several dozen thick old (18-19th c.). That wasn't the interesting part. The interesting part was opening them -- apparently nobody had leafed through them in a long time, because I found pressed in them flowers, stems, and leaves, as well as bits of paper and things indicating they were bibles from a mission to China. I don't know if the botanica was Chinese or from "home," wherever that was for the missionaries. I wanted to take a flower, but I left them as I found them. I wonder if they are still there?

I love your site. I am the chief of leaving ephemera in books I love - four leaf clovers, favorite notes from relatives, old menus and quotes from events I attended. It is anthropology for today. And I certainly identify with Alice. I feel like I am always at the Mad Hatter tea party of life. Thanks!